Entrance to Antwerp Zoo
Name
Entrance to Antwerp Zoo
Address Koningin Astridplein
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
Original use
Année 1903
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
Remarkable elements
Address Koningin Astridplein
City/Neighborhood Antwerp
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
- Floral Art Nouveau
Original use
- Tourist attraction
Année 1903
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Thielens Emile
- Van Averbeke Emiel
Remarkable elements
- Mosaics
- Ironwork
- Sculpture
Two twin pavilions surround the main entrance to the zoo.
Designed by architects Thielens and Van Averbeke in 1903, they included the entrance counters. Made of white stone and hard stone, they surround a wrought iron portal in Art Nouveau style topped in its center by a royal crown.
The domed roofs are decorated with bronze statues of pelicans and vultures.
Above the ticket windows, two magnificent golden mosaics, one representing a tiger, the other a roaring lion. All the ironwork, including the lamp posts, is period.
Buildings listed in June 1983.
ANT41 - Unless otherwise stated © www.admirable-artnouveau.be for all photos